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Streetcar Named Desire"
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FLASHI Vivien Leigh wins the Prize as "Best Actress of the Year" at the Twelfth International Film Festival in Venice for her performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire"!
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"A Streetcar Called sire" has come to the King's Theatre screen with three of the original members of the cast that made it a hit on the Broadway stage Marlon Brando
the brutish Stan Kowalski, Kim Hunter as his wife, Stella, and Karl Malden as Blanche Du Bois suitor.
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The three Broadway stare make the im one of the most realistic of Hollywood's efforts in | years
It is well worth the see- ing for some excellent sequences where the Arling reaches higher level of artistry than Hollywood generally offers over
a score of its "vehicles".
This particular vehicle--and two story has been more aptly subtly titled than has "A Streetcar Named Desire"-races along on a loult that is not too much that of Vivien Leigh, the slac as Blanche Du Bois, as on the necessity of telling the story at the dialogue.
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Mis Leigh has 100 much dialogue, much of it low-voiced and much in almost a whisper. no easy to faltow. The slage allows more time. On the screen, one
The greates! atresses T AUT day caces Through the part of Blanche.
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Miss Leigh was in the Londen version of the play. She fits in well with the others and her caracterisation of Blanche on alcoholic, nymphomaniac fght away from troubles is brilliantly presented,
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Kim Hunter as Stella
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Karl Malden as Mitch
but unfortunately, at almost a |KEN
by akneck lempo.
Kim Bunter as the sober, ken, passionate Stella puts in a performance that is restrained
Karl Maldon as Fad nemorable.
Bloche's mama's boy sultor,
does well by a difficult part.
Marlon Brando as the brutishi brother-in-law is a new star in the Hollywood galaxy, rather
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis,
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Vivien Leigh as Blanche
Marlon Brando as Stan
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Vera Lynn Is Top
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the genteel cinema-goer that Bollywood has developed. performance pulls no punches.- MHT.
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a colleague, bustling briskly into David And
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Doubtless he expected the Book of Samuel but had not bargained for the Book of Zanuck, which, so far as I can glean its purpose, stems from a belief that the Old Testament's Revised Ver- sion is sorely in need of further revision.
So scholarly American designers and anthropologists have unearthed the fact that David ruled Israel in a while baseball shirt stamped with his own Star, a black cummerbund. a magenta kilt with gold curtain- tringe, and laced top-boots,
That Bathsheba affected Greek kirtle for court-wear Jerusalem, flowered muslin for love-making in the country. and carmiine nails for both;
And that the two were married in costumes which can be used again, if Mr Zasuck ever decides to do "Richard Of Burdeaux."
Textual research, on the same intensive scale, reveals that the passage "And from the roof he saw a woman washing herself: and the woman was very beauti- ful to jook upon." means that David saw Buinsheba's auburn hair, typically tipult nose and one soapy arm Bi a range of about 75 yarns. over the top of un old hessian screen. (Or is this an emendation interpolated by the Prophet Breen?)
Musicologists will be glad to learn that David did not sing the Palms
muttered them
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through his harp-swings in a hoarse whisper, with twangs be- tween stanzas.
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And no student of the balle! can afford
to miss a typical Israelite pas seul, in which lady flings tiny brass tennis- rackets at a group of appreciative elders whom she attempts to Inadden by semaphore signals delivered with boh balves of
her divided, cherry-coloured skirt.
Through no fault of the Gregory Peek and director. Susan Hayward contrive some- how to retain the sort of dignity the picture needed a dignity which it actually attains only in the short flash-back sequence at who? She's "The the end when David remembers Sweetheart of the Forces," Vera bis anointment by Samuel and Lynn, glamorised and singing the death of Goliath in the Vul- better than ever these days. sey of Elah.
For the rest,
a Biblical vine
IF YOU have been looking that might have been fruitful has forward to seeing Cyrano been devoured by 20th-Century de Bergerac at your local foxes. cinema, you're going to be un- lucky. None of the big cireuils will book it, and, unless they
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DAPHNE du MAURIER 19 chasing Greta Garbo as band as any autograph hunter. Reason: 20th Century- Fox have paid £28,000 for the screen rights of her book, My Cousin Rachel, and Daphne is trying to persuade Greta that Rachel is the one and only rule for her comeback.
If Daphne fails, either. Valli or Olivia de Havilland will get the park And if Britain's Carol Reed succumbs to offers, he wil direct his first American film.
LIFE begins at....The Hon, Mty Lawford- Lubbock, aunt of Peter Lawford, filming The Hour OJ) Thirteen at Elstree, Inst week made her screen debut with her nephew-at 91
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M.-G.-M. vice president Howard Dietz We M.-G.-M. have never röude a bad; plehre. The picture may not have done as expected at ho box-office, but it was not a bad film. Sometimes it is the public that fa the top.
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